Leadership Questions to Position EA

Companies get the systems they deserve. A company's systems state is a result of its culture, organizational history, and its funding structures.

Coherent, well-integrated systems will only ever exist in companies that value coherence and integrated service.

• What percentage of senior managers can describe, at a high level, the enterprise architecture?
• What processes distinguish us competitively?
• Do your new strategic initiatives leverage existing capabilities?
• Do your decision makers take effective action on the same set of useful customer and product data every day?

Focus architecture efforts on strategic organizational processes. Focus on eliminating those silos that are limiting business efficiency and agility.

Move incrementally - each stage of enterprise architecture requires its own set of management practices

• IT capability
• Business objectives
• Funding priorities
• Key management capability
• Who defines applications
• Key IT governance issues
• Strategic implications

Aim for business modularity